The future of the EU ETS

Dec 4, 2017

Analysis on the long term future for the Emissions Trading System and carbon pricing in the EU – what will it take to avoid catastrophic climate change?

State of the EU ETS 2017

Nov 27, 2017

Detailed analysis of the Emissions Trading System in 2017 – Is the EU’s once flagship climate change policy working?

Aligning Europe’s Policies for Carbon, Efficiency, and Renewables

Jun 6, 2017

Since the earliest days of environmental policy there has been an ongoing and robust debate over the roles of pollution pricing on the one hand, and direct regulatory and governmental programs on the other hand, as tools to reduce pollution levels equitably and...

Why is a carbon-intensity threshold needed for Capacity Payments?

Jun 1, 2017

The European Commission has made it clear that it intends to limit capacity payments in Europe, and its most controversial proposal is to prevent capacity payments to high-carbon power plants; those which run on hard coal and lignite. The Commission has proposed to...

Brexit & the EU ETS: Greater as the sum or in parts?

May 12, 2017

New analysis by Sandbag shows that the UK Government’s current approach to Brexit makes the possibility of  the UK staying in the EU carbon market unlikely in the long term. If the UK leaves, the size of the persistent EU ETS surplus would be only slightly reduced...